Luang Prabang

I have written recently about travelling in Laos, including some time in Luang Prabang and visits to places nearby like the Pak Ou caves. We also travelled to the Kuang Si waterfalls, which are around twenty miles from Luang Prabang. We headed off to find the waterfalls, and found that we were sharing the road […]

I wrote recently about a trip to Luang Prabang in northern Laos, which we used as a base to explore the area. One of the places that we visited from Luang Prabang is the Pak Ou caves, about 25km north, towards the Chinese border, along the Mekong river. We got on our boat in […]

Luang Prabang in the north of Laos is the former Royal capital of the country, and was once the capital of the country of Luang Prabang, one of the three countries that came together to form modern Laos. It remained the royal capital until 1975, when the country became communist, under the Pathet Lao regime. […]